Francesco Antonio Coratoli (13 December 1671 – 10 June 1722) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 or Rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 periods.

Born in Monteleone di Puglia

Monteleone di Puglia

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, Coratoli trained under a painter by the name of Zoda. He travelled to Rome to study painting. His works include frescoes in the Basilica di San Leone Luca, Santa Maria di Gesù, a Coronation of the Virgin for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli

Santa Maria degli Angeli

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, and a Marriage of St. Joseph for il Gesù. He died in Monteleone.